Art Blakey Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Art Blakey? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Art Blakey from Jazz & Blues and what is the personality traits.
ISTP (5w4)
Art Blakey personality type is ISTP, the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. I suspect that a lot of INFPs have a similar personality type.
I was always a very high-achieving person, and I'm still a hard worker, but I'm also what you might call a “slacker.” I have a lot of ideas, but I don't have a lot of drive to follow them through.
I studied music at the Juilliard School, even though my parents thought I was wasting my education. At the same time, I spent a lot of time in the library reading books about jazz history and music theory.
In college, I started playing in a band with a bunch of friends who were interested in a different kind of music—the kind that was popular when we were in high school. Being a teenager, I didn't really know much about the music. But I always liked it.
I started writing my own songs because I wanted to play my own music. In college, I wrote a song called “The Jam,” which was about a jam session in a loft. That's where I met Milt Jackson for the first time.
Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was briefly known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he became a Muslim in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s".
